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Fiddler’s BBQ Breaks Thru at Smoke on the Lake

Fiddler’s BBQ Breaks Thru at Smoke on the Lake

A few weeks ago at Jackson, Fiddler’s BBQ made finals in all three categories and took first in Loin & Pulled Pork.  However, Bubba Grills’ Rib entry denied Harvey & Shirley Wills the last call.  At Smoke on the Lake at Acworth, Fiddler’s only made finals in Pulled Pork, but the entry was stong enough to bring home a score of 599 and the Grand Championship.

Grand Champion - Fiddler's BBQ

Grand Champion – Fiddler’s BBQ

Brad Sweet of 92/Assassin Smokers scored a perfect 600 in both Loin and Ribs in the preliminary rounds to record the highest cumulative score for the contest and capture the Reserve Championship. It was the first time a single team has received perfect scores in two different categories in the same contest.  Bubba Grills did hit the 600 mark in both the preliminaries and finals in Ribs at Gordon in 2012.

Reserve Champion - 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

Reserve Champion – 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

 

In Pork Loin, Just Blowing Smoke won the final’s table with 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers taking 2nd place and Smokin The Good Stuff taking third.  Fourth place went to Fiddler’s BBQ;; 5th place went to We Want Que and 6th place went to Plum Superior BBQ. CJ’s BBQ took 7th place with Smart Ash BBQ taking eighth.  Curley Que BBQ made 9th place and SmokeShack BBQ rounded out the top 10.

 

1st Place Loin - Just Blowing Smoke

1st Place Loin – Just Blowing Smoke

 

 

Fiddler’s BBQ Grand Championship Pulled Pork entry topped the category with Swineholio as the runner-up and CJ’s BBQ in third place. Plum Superior BBQ finished in 4th just ahead of 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers in 5th place. Just Blowing Smoke walked for 6th place and Smoking the Good Stuff got the 7th place call.  Eighth thru 10th places went to We Want Que, SmokeShack BBQ and Four Fathers BBQ Crew respectively.

 

Winning Ribs was 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers.  Plum Superior BBQ claimed 2nd place and Smoking Butts BBQ claimed third.  Smokin the Good Stuff took 4th place.  Fifth place went to Rub Shakers Que and 6th place in Ribs went to Swineholio. We Want Que waked for the third time with the 7th place call and Porkinator got their first call of the day for 8th place.  Just Blowing Smoke took 9th place and 10th place went to Fiddler’s BBQ.

 

 

Smoke on the Lake also hosted a GBA sanctioned Cooking for Fun contest.  Hickory Flat BBQ won the Grand Championship and Nice Rack BBQ won the Reserve Championship.

 

Cookin For Fun Grand Champion - Hickory Flat BBQ

Cooking For Fun Grand Champion – Hickory Flat BBQ

Cooking For Fun Reserve Champion - NIce Rack BBQ

Cooking For Fun Reserve Champion – NIce Rack BBQ

Hickory Flat BBQ won the Chicken category with East Coast BBQ taking 2nd place and YMCA Spirit, Mind & Body BBQ taking 3rd place.  Nice Rack BBQ took top honors in Pulled Pork. Liberty BBQ was the runner up and Its Hog Gone Good got the 3rd place call.  Hickory Flat BBQ picked up their second 1st place trophy for Ribs, Dawgs Smokin Hawgs came in 2nd with Nice Rack BBQ coming in 3rd place.

The GBA thanks the North Cobb Rotary Club for organizing Smoke on the Lake and the citizens of Acworth for their amazing support of the event.  Each year the Rotary club raises thousands for thier charity projects.  Next  up for the GBA is  White Oak Pastures BBQ Challenge in Fort Gaines on May 22-23.

Full Results – GBA Divisioin (note 1st , 2nd & 3rd place scores are from Final Rounds. All other scores are from preliminary round scores.)

LOIN   PULLED PORK   RIBS
1 597.6 Just Blowing Smoke 1 599 Fiddlers BBQ 1 596.3 92 BBQ Assasin Smokers
2 595.4 92 BBQ Assasin Smokers 2 590.8 Swineholio 2 595.7 Plum Superior BBQ
3 588.4 Smokin The God Stuff 3 586.8 CJ’s BBQ 3 587.9 Smoking Butts BBQ
4 592.1 Fiddlers BBQ 4 587.2 Plum Superior BBQ 4 590.2 Smokin The Good Stuff
5 591.5 We Want Que 5 586.8 92 BBQ 5 588.7 Rub Shakers Que
6 590.8 Plum Superior BBQ 6 583.2 Just Blowin’ Smoke 6 588.2 Swineholio
7 589.9 CJ’s BBQ 7 581.9 Smokin The Good Stuff 7 584.2 We Want Que
8 583.9 Smart Ash BBQ 8 580.6 We Want Que 8 583.6 Porkinator
9 580.9 Curly Q BBQ 9 579.6 Smoke Shack BBQ 9 583.3 Just Blowin’ Smoke
10 579.3 Smoke Shack BBQ 10 577.4 Four Fathers BBQ Crew 10 582.1 Fiddlers BBQ
11 579 Smoking Butts BBQ 11 577 Lizzy Lou 11 580.3 Butt Rubbin BBQ
12 577 Porkinator 12 576.7 Smoking Butts BBQ 12 576.9 Lizzy Lou
13 574 Rub Shakers Que 13 574.7 Porkinator 13 576.7 CJ’s BBQ
14 569.7 Four Fathers BBQ Crew 14 573.9 Rub Shakers Que 14 572 Smart Ash BBQ
15 563.6 Swineholio 15 570.5 Butt Rubbin BBQ 15 569.9 Four Fathers BBQ Crew
16 562.1 Lizzy Lou 16 566.5 Curly Q BBQ 16 565.7 Smoke Shack BBQ
17 561.8 Butt Rubbin BBQ 17 555.6 Smart Ash BBQ 17 561.9 Curly Q BBQ

 

 

 Reserve Scores Loin Pulled Ribs Total
1 92 BBQ 600 586.8 600 1786.8
2 Plum Superior BBQ 590.8 587.2 596.1 1774.1
3 Smokin The Good Stuff 594.8 581.9 590.2 1766.9
4 Fiddlers BBQ 592.1 592.1 582.1 1766.3
5 CJ’s BBQ 589.9 599.7 576.7 1766.3
6 Just Blowin’ Smoke 594.2 583.2 583.3 1760.7
7 We Want Que 591.5 580.6 584.2 1756.3
8 Swineholio 563.6 597.4 588.2 1749.2
9 Smoking Butts BBQ 579 576.7 590.8 1746.5
10 Rub Shakers Que 574 573.9 588.7 1736.6
11 Porkinator 577 574.7 583.6 1735.3
12 Smoke Shack BBQ 579.3 579.6 565.7 1724.6
13 Four Fathers BBQ Crew 569.7 577.4 569.9 1717
14 Lizzy Lou 562.1 577 576.9 1716
15 Butt Rubbin BBQ 561.8 570.5 580.3 1712.6
16 Smart Ash BBQ 583.9 555.6 572 1711.5
17 Curly Q BBQ 580.9 566.5 561.9 1709.3

 

Cooking For Fun Results;  (note: there is no final rounds in Cooking For Fun)

 

CHICKEN   PULLED PORK   RIBS
1 592.1 Hickory Flat BBQ Co. 1 597 Nice Rack BBQ 1 596.7 Hickory Flat BBQ Co.
2 587.9 East Coast BBQ 2 587.6 Liberty BBQ 2 594.4 Dawgs Smokin’ Hawgs
3 583.6 YMCA Spirit, Mind & Body BBQ 3 587 It’s Hog Gone Good 3 583.8 Nice Rack BBQ
4 583.31 How Bout Them Hawgs 4 586.9 Smokin’ Jackets 4 580.9 The Smokin’ Snowballs
5 583.3 The Smokin’ Snowballs 5 583.5 Dawgs Smokin’ Hawgs 5 578.31 Liberty BBQ
6 582.9 Sweet Bottom BBQ 6 582.9 Sweet Bottom BBQ 6 578.3 Smokin’ Z BBQ
7 581.3 Nice Rack BBQ 7 580.7 East Coast BBQ 7 578 Smokin’ Jackets
8 580.5 It’s Hog Gone Good 8 579.7 Cooking in Congress 8 573.31 How Bout Them Hawgs
9 578.3 Smokin’ Jackets 9 575.3 Hickory Flat BBQ Co. 9 573.3 East Coast BBQ
10 577 Liberty BBQ 10 575 YMCA Spirit, Mind & Body BBQ 10 571 YMCA Spirit, Mind & Body BBQ
11 576.6 Smokin’ Z BBQ 11 574.8 How Bout Them Hawgs 11 570.4 Sweet Bottom BBQ
12 563 Dawgs Smokin’ Hawgs 12 569.1 Smokin’ Z BBQ 12 567.8 It’s Hog Gone Good
13 0 Cooking in Congress 13 568.4 The Smokin’ Snowballs 13 0 Cooking in Congress

 

 Overall Scores Loin Pulled Ribs Total
1 Hickory Flat BBQ Co. 592.1 575.3 596.7 1764.1
2 Nice Rack BBQ 581.3 597 583.8 1762.1
3 Smokin’ Jackets 578.3 586.9 578 1743.2
4 Liberty BBQ 577 587.6 578.31 1742.91
5 East Coast BBQ 587.9 580.7 573.3 1741.9
6 Dawgs Smokin’ Hawgs 563 583.5 594.4 1740.9
7 Sweet Bottom BBQ 582.9 582.9 570.4 1736.2
8 It’s Hog Gone Good 580.5 587 567.8 1735.3
9 The Smokin’ Snowballs 583.3 568.4 580.9 1732.6
10 How Bout Them Hawgs 583.31 574.8 573.31 1731.42
11 YMCA Spirit, Mind & Body BBQ 583.6 575 571 1729.6
12 Smokin’ Z BBQ 576.6 569.1 578.3 1724
13 Cooking in Congress 0 579.7 0 579.7

Back to Back Grands for 29 Barbeque

Back to Back Grands for 29 Barbeque

The Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA) plowed into the Durhamtown Off Road Park near Union Point for the Durhamtown Spring Jam & BBQ Cook-off.  While the slick red clay mud was a delight for the 4 Wheelers & Dirt Bikers, it presented some challenges to the Pitmasters.  The GBA cooks were up for the conditions & turned in some outstanding ‘Que  The competition was close as 16 teams vied for the final calls.  The competition was so tight that the GBA reps had to go to break a tie for the Grand Championship.

In the Finals, 29 Barbeque’s Pulled Pork box & Dobey Q’s Loin box both tallied a score of 597 from the final’s judges.  The GBA motto is “It’s All About the Taste” and the Taste criteria is the first level in the tiebreaker system.  29 Barbeque’s scored 0.04 higher in the Taste criteria than Dobey Q to win the Grand Championship.

 

Grand Champion -29 Barbeque

Grand Champion -29 Barbeque

Bubba Grills made finals in both Loin & Ribs and added a 10th place finish in Pulled Pork to tally the top cumulative score in the preliminary rounds and take home the Reserve Champion award.

Reserve Champion - Bubba Grills

Reserve Champion – Bubba Grills

 

First Place Loin - Dobey Q

First Place Loin – Dobey Q

 

 

Dobey Q’s 597 score in Loin topped the category by just 0.2 over Fiddler’s BBQ. Bubba Grills took 3rd place. 29 Barbeque edged LawDawg BBQ by 0.04 of a point for 4th place. Sixth place went to Main Street BBQ and 7th place went to Real South BBQ.   Southern Hogs, H & J Cooking Team & 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers rounded out the top 10.

 

 

29 Barbeque had the best Pulled Pork of the day with Main Street BBQ taking 2nd place & We Want Que taking 3rd place.  Smoke Shack BBQ grabbe 4th place; 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers grabbed 4th and H & J Cooking Team pulled down 6th place.  Real South BBQ once again captured 7th place with Master Basters capturing 8th place. Ninth place went to Dobey Q and 10th place went to Bubba Grills.

 

 

First Place Ribs - 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

First Place Ribs – 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

 

 

92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers got the last call in the Ribs category.  Smokin’ the Good Stuff was runner-up with Bubba Grills taking 3rd place. Smoke Shack BBQ got their second 4th place call of the day and Fiddlers BBQ got the call for 5th place. Dobey Q got their third call of the day for 6th place and H & J Coooking team also got a third call with a 7th place finish. In 8th place was Southern Hogs just 0.3 ahead of 29 Barbeque in 9th place. Tenth place went to We Want Que.

 

 

Durhamtown also hosted a GBA sanctioned Cooking for Fun division contest.  Cooking for Fun consists of Pulled Pork and Ribs.  It is one round of competition only with no finals round as in the GBA Pro division. Six teams competed in the Cooking For Fun Division.

 

Southern Accents took first place in Pulled Pork.  White Racing Team topped the Ribs category. Fine Azz Swine was the runner-up in both cateories and Screaming Eagle BBQ took 3rd place in both as well,

 

Cooking For Fun Pork - Southern Accent

Cooking For Fun Pork – Southern Accent

Coking For Fun - Ribs - White Racing

Coking For Fun – Ribs – White Racing

 

 

The GBA has three great contests on tap for April starting with Hawkinsville’s Smokin’ the Track followed by Bikes, Blues & BBQ in Douglas and Smokin’ Pork N Butts in Jackson.

Full Results  GBA Division:

LOIN   PULLED PORK   RIBS
1 597 Doby Q 1 597 29 Barbeque 1 596.4 92 Barbeque
2 596.8 Fiddlers BBQ 2 593.4 Main Street BBQ 2 594.7 Smokin the Good Stuff
3 587.2 Bubba Grills 3 591.2 We Want Que 3 590.9 Bubba Grills
4 588.5 29 Barbeque 4 588.5 Smoke Shack BBQ 4 588.2 Smoke Shack BBQ
5 588.1 Law Dawg BBQ 5 587.9 92 BBQ 5 587.5 Fiddlers BBQ
6 586.9 Main Street BBQ 6 587.8 H and J Cooking Team 6 585.5 Dobey Que
7 586.2 Real South 7 587.3 Real South 7 583.8 H and J Cooking Team
8 585.3 Southern Hogs 8 586.9 Master Basters 8 582.6 Southern Hogs
9 582.6 H and J Cooking Team 9 585.8 Dobey Que 9 582.3 29 Barbeque
10 576.8 92 BBQ 10 585.3 Bubba Grills 10 581.9 We Want Que
11 574.8 Old Henry’s BBQ 11 583.6 Fiddlers BBQ 11 580.4 Old Henry’s BBQ
12 574.3 Smoke Shack BBQ 12 583.4 Southern Hogs 12 579.6 Speed Power Pork
13 572.3 We Want Que 13 575.7 Law Dawg BBQ 13 573.3 Law Dawg BBQ
14 571.1 Master Basters 14 573.7 Speed Power Pork 14 564.5 Main Street BBQ
15 567.4 Smokin the Good Stuff 15 572.8 Old Henry’s BBQ 15 564.4 Master Basters
16 561.5 Speed Power Pork 16 568.2 Smokin the Good Stuff 16 563.8 Real South

 

 

 Reserve Scores Loin Pulled Ribs Total
1 Bubba Grills 591.5 585.3 595.1 1771.9
2 Fiddlers BBQ 594.8 583.6 587.5 1765.9
3 Dobey Que 592.1 585.8 585.5 1763.4
4 29 Barbeque 588.5 589.9 582.3 1760.7
5 92 BBQ 576.8 587.9 590.6 1755.3
6 H and J Cooking Team 582.6 587.8 583.8 1754.2
7 Southern Hogs 585.3 583.4 582.6 1751.3
8 Smoke Shack BBQ 574.3 588.5 588.2 1751
9 We Want Que 572.3 590.9 581.9 1745.1
10 Main Street BBQ 586.9 591.5 564.5 1742.9
11 Real South 586.2 587.3 563.8 1737.3
12 Law Dawg BBQ 588.1 575.7 573.3 1737.1
13 Old Henry’s BBQ 574.8 572.8 580.4 1728
14 Smokin the Good Stuff 567.4 568.2 590.8 1726.4
15 Master Basters 571.1 586.9 564.4 1722.4
16 Speed Power Pork 561.5 573.7 579.6 1714.8

 

Cooking For Fun Division

PULLED PORK   RIBS
1 589.6 Southern Accent 1 582.6 White Racing Team
2 582.3 Fine Azz Swine 2 580.9 Fine Azz Swine
3 580.6 Screaming Eagle BBQ 3 579.7 Screaming Eagle BBQ
4 573.7 Smokin Pipes 4 576 Southern Accent
5 0 White Racing Team 5 568.7 Smokin Pipes

South Cobb BBQ & Blues Gets Smoked Rescue Style

South Cobb BBQ & Blues Gets Smoked Rescue Style

Robby Royal and Rescue Smokers,of BBQ Pitmasters fame, took first place in both Pulled Pork and Ribs at the South Cobb BBQ & Blues Festival.  It was his near perfect score of 599.1 in the Pulled Pork finals round that netted the team the Grand Championship

grand champion - rescue smokers

Grand Champion – Rescue Smokers

Just Blowing Smoke, Robin Bowles PItmaster, made finals in Loin; finished 5th in Pulled Pork and 7th in Ribs to take home the Reserve Championship.

reserve champion - just blowing smoke

Reserve Champion – Just Blowing Smoke

 

Butt Rubbin BBQ

Butt Rubbin BBQ

 

 

The first category of the contest was Loin and Just Blowing Smoke topped the field. Butt Rubbin BBQ took second place and 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers took third.  Rescue Smokers actually tied for third place but lost the tiebreaker to miss finals and finished in fourth place. Hard Rock Hill BBQ came in fifth place with Dixie Que in sixth. Smokin Butts BBQ took seventh; Rub Shakers Que took eighth; Fiddlers BBQ took ninth and We Want Que took 10th place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CJs

CJs

 

 

Rescue Smokers won the Pulled Pork category with CJ’s as runner-up. We Want Que grabbed third place with 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers in fourth and Just Blowing Smoke in fifth place.  There was a tie for sixth place and Fiddler’s BBQ won the tiebreaker over Dixie Que. Rub Shakers Que,  Smokin’ the Good Stuff and Hard Rock Hill BBQ finished eighth through tenth respectively.

 

 

rub shakers

 

 

It was Rescue Smokers taking their second win of the day with the top scoring Rib box.  Rub Shakers Que came in second with Smokin’ The Good Stuff coming in third. Fiddlers BBQ took fourth; Smoking J’s took fifth place and Dixie Que took sixth place. Seventh place went to Just Blowing Smoke. The final three calls in Ribs were very close. Butt Rubbin’ BBQ got the eighth place call by just 0.2 of a point over We Want Que in ninth. Just 0.1 of a point back was Daddy-O’s BBQ in tenth place.

 

 

The Georgia Barbecue Association really enjoyed their first trip to Austell and the South Cobb BBQ & Blues Festival  We want to thank the contest organizers and the staff of the beautiful EpiCenter for hosting a great contest.  Next week, the GBA heads to MIlledgeville for the Deep Roots Fesitval

Full Contest Results:

LOIN
1 596.3 Just Blowing Smoke
2 594.2 Butt Rubb’n BBQ
3 591.5 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers
4 592.4 Rescue Smokers
5 588.2 Hard Rock Hill BBQ
6 583.6 Dixie Que
7 582.9 Smokin Butts BBQ
8 580.2 Rub Shakers Que
9 579.9 Fiddler’s BBQ
10 575.9 We Want Que
11 575.1 Smokin’ the Good Stuff
12 574.8 Smokin’ Hotlanta
13 571.4 CJ’s
14 571.4 Where There’s Smoke
15 570.2 Smokin J’s Barbeque
16 569.7 Temple of the Hog
17 566.6 Daddy-O’s_BBQ

 

PULLED PORK   RIBS
1 599.1 Rescue Smokers 1 597.2 Rescue Smokers
2 593.5 CJ’s 2 593.2 Rub Shakers Que
3 588.2 We Want Que 3 591.6 Smokin’ the Good Stuff
4 594.5 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers 4 591.2 Fiddler’s BBQ
5 592.1 Just Blowing Smoke 5 589.9 Smokin J’s Barbeque
6 591.21 Fiddler’s BBQ 6 587.5 Dixie Que
7 591.2 Dixie Que 7 584.8 Just Blowing Smoke
8 590.6 Rub Shakers Que 8 582.2 Butt Rubb’n BBQ
9 587.6 Smokin’ the Good Stuff 9 582 We Want Que
10 586.1 Hard Rock Hill BBQ 10 581.9 Daddy-O’s_BBQ
11 582 Daddy-O’s_BBQ 11 578.6 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers
12 582 Smokin’ Hotlanta 12 577.1 Hard Rock Hill BBQ
13 578.9 Butt Rubb’n BBQ 13 575.1 Smokin’ Hotlanta
14 575.4 Smokin J’s Barbeque 14 572.5 Smokin Butts BBQ
15 575.4 Smokin Butts BBQ 15 564.8 CJ’s
16 568.5 Where There’s Smoke 16 563.9 Where There’s Smoke
17 566.1 Temple of the Hog 17 560.6 Temple of the Hog

 

Reserve Scores
Loin Pulled Ribs Total
1 Rescue Smokers 592.4 595.7 596.4 1784.5
2 Just Blowing Smoke 599.7 592.1 584.8 1776.6
3 Rub Shakers Que 580.2 590.6 595.4 1766.2
4 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers 592.41 594.5 578.6 1765.51
5 Fiddler’s BBQ 579.9 591.21 591.2 1762.31
6 Dixie Que 583.6 591.2 587.5 1762.3
7 Butt Rubb’n BBQ 596.1 578.9 582.2 1757.2
8 Smokin’ the Good Stuff 575.1 587.6 592.4 1755.1
9 We Want Que 575.9 595.2 582 1753.1
10 Hard Rock Hill BBQ 588.2 586.1 577.1 1751.4
11 Smokin J’s Barbeque 570.2 575.4 589.9 1735.5
12 Smokin’ Hotlanta 574.8 582 575.1 1731.9
13 CJ’s 571.4 595.4 564.8 1731.6
14 Smokin Butts BBQ 582.9 575.4 572.5 1730.8
15 Daddy-O’s_BBQ 566.6 582 581.9 1730.5
16 Where There’s Smoke 571.4 568.5 563.9 1703.8
17 Temple of the Hog 569.7 566.1 560.6 1696.4me